Comments on: OS X: How to Change Default Application to Open File Type

By: oops!

oops! — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Thanks a lot man! These Ctrl-Clicks, alt-Clicks,… are killing me! Can't apple just put it somewhere so that everyone knows how to do it?!

By: suzyru

suzyru — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:31:09 +0000

Really?!!? That easy? I simply can't believe I didn't figure that out on my own. Off & on for the last 2 months I've been searching around system preferences and what not, trying to find a way to set a default app for all .avi files.. all the while doing the normal “angry at my computer” dance.
Thank you for making my life a little easier!

By: hparry

hparry — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:32:42 +0000

I've just done this, but the trouble is every document i download has .html added to the end of it, so my computer thinks everything is the same!

How can I fix this? It's driving me mad!!

By: Richie

Richie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:50:22 +0000

Thanks!

By: Zinga

Zinga — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:12:39 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tip!!!

By: Matteo De Felice

Matteo De Felice — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:53:17 +0000

thanks

By: anon

anon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:22:37 +0000

This fails and instantly reverts to the previous application. Try giving complete informaiton next time.

Some applications forbid you from changing the type and there is no known bypass,

Microsoft office, and The unarchiver both will not allow you to change their types after wet w/o uninstalling the applications. Try it out install comical, then the unarchiver, then try to set cbr files back to comical. It's impossible till you uninstall the unarchinver, same with office.

By: steeeverb

steeeverb — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:48:20 +0000

I've been looking for this answer -- perfect. Why I cannot find this answer on apple.com is beyond me. They obviously made the functionality...
Thanks so much.

By: Computermad

Computermad — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:22:07 +0000

Thanks! gd job!

By: Hypnos

Hypnos — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:07:07 +0000

Thank you for the solution. I was wondering about the latter case, as as recent OS switcher.